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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2018

Covalently circularized nanodiscs; challenges and applications.

Mahmoud L Nasr, Gerhard Wagner

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Nanodisc System for Investigating Protein-Lipid Interactions.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  13. Nanodiscs: A toolkit for membrane protein science.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2021
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  16. Magnetic Alignment of Polymer Nanodiscs Probed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mahmoud L NasrDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Gerhard WagnerDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: gerhard_wagner@hms.harvard.edu.

Funding

T CELL SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTION COMPLEXESP01GM047467 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WAGNER, GERHARD · 1992 to 2017
$28.6M
STRUCTURE BASIS OF IMMUNE-CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR FUNCTIONR01AI037581 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WAGNER, GERHARD · 1996 to 2021
$6.7M
BAX Activation and OligomerizationF32GM113406 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI NASR, MAHMOUD · 2015 to 2016
$112k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI037581NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM113406NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM047467
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Covalently circularized nanodiscs (cNDs) represent a significant advance in the durability and applicability of nanodisc technology. The new cNDs demonstrate higher size homogeneity and improved stability compared with that of non-circularized forms. Moreover, cNDs can be prepared at various defined sizes up to 80-nm diameter. The large cNDs can house much larger membrane proteins and their complexes than was previously possible with the conventional nanodiscs. In order to experience the full advantages of covalent circularization, high quality circularized scaffold protein and nanodisc samples are needed. Here, we give a concise overview and discuss the technical challenges that needed to be overcome in order to obtain high quality preparations. Furthermore, we review some potential new applications for the cNDs.

Indexed as

NanotechnologyLipid BilayersMembrane ProteinsNanostructuresPhospholipidsProtein BindingProtein MultimerizationLipid BilayersMembrane ProteinsPhospholipids

Identifiers

PMID29677570
PMCPMC6192853

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